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Location of the 'Chicken Run on the Goldstone East Terrace



LowKarate

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Jan 6, 2004
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Inspired by a recent thread where some of our older fans posted their views on where the 'Chicken Run' was located at The Goldstone (and also where it wasn't), I decided to dig out this old ground map which I have in my collection and post it here to provide a definitive reference for anyone wanting to know the answer to this question in the future.

This map was an insert in the first match day programme of the 1946/47 season after World War II against Port Vale and was presumably provided as an aide to help people decide where to watch the game from and also how much it cost in each area.

So now you know.

Map of Goldstone.jpg
 








Chicken Run

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Jul 17, 2003
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Valley of Hangleton
Yes. Transfers is an interesting yet long forgotten concept I imagine for people who wanted swap position at half time to follow the Albion attack.

I would imagine that they would be better placed staying where they were and watching the Albion defence take a battering unless off course they had binos.


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carlzeiss

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May 19, 2009
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Amazonia
Yes, it was, and when I started watching the Albion in the 1950's you could walk all round the ground (except for the players tunnel)without paying 'transfers'.

Think it might have been a visit from Millwall that ended that tradition .
 






skipper734

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Aug 9, 2008
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Curdridge
1954, still 9d for boys, and often when the crowd was thin you walked down the other end to watch the Home goal action. (or not) I've never seen the Chicken run like that. Note that it is the original West Stand, and a picket fence ran all around the pitch and running track. I don't remember when they changed it for a wall.
 


dejavuatbtn

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Aug 4, 2010
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Henfield
Good thread. Interesting to see how the turnstiles changed position over the years, what the prices were, transfers, location of press box and comparative sizes of the old wooden stands.
 








Shy Talk

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Mar 3, 2012
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Brighton
Presumably the OP's map was drawn before the terracing was built. It could have been fairly level ground then, or at best gently sloping? I would have thought that the fence would have been replaced with a wall on this side when the terracing was built.
 












severnside gull

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May 16, 2007
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By the seaside in West Somerset
Inspired by a recent thread where some of our older fans posted their views on where the 'Chicken Run' was located at The Goldstone (and also where it wasn't), I decided to dig out this old ground map which I have in my collection and post it here to provide a definitive reference for anyone wanting to know the answer to this question in the future.

This map was an insert in the first match day programme of the 1946/47 season after World War II against Port Vale and was presumably provided as an aide to help people decide where to watch the game from and also how much it cost in each area.

So now you know.

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It wasn't always like that though. Throughout the 60's until 1978 there was no separation between the north stand and northwest terrace and there was standing space in front of the west stand up to the tunnel at halfway
 




Green Cross Code Man

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Mar 30, 2006
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Eastbourne
It wasn't always like that though. Throughout the 60's until 1978 there was no separation between the north stand and northwest terrace and there was standing space in front of the west stand up to the tunnel at halfway
I am sure I remember walking from the north to the south as a small child at half time. I'd forgotten that, it means I went in the old north stand. The west was all standing on the lower sections, not just up to the tunnel.
 


trueblue

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Jul 5, 2003
10,350
Hove
Interesting. I always thought the chicken run was the shallow terracing at the South end of the East Terrace so had that wrong. Why was it given that name?
 



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